fall of 2012 was heartbreaking. one of university high school s top students, skylar neese, had disappeared during the summer. classmate shania ammon. starting school without her, that was probably one of the hardest days through the whole thing. skylar was just a go to person and she was gone. skylar s friend morgan lawrence was dreading roll call. i didn t have any classes with her, thank god. you didn t want to hear her name called. it s not the same. i know you can t tell the teacher we don t know if she s coming back. in some ways, life seemed normal. skylar s good friend sheila eddy seen in this video taken in the classroom is back in school. i don t want my baby to look like him. so is bff rachel shoaf but everyone was worried about skylar. and in school hallways and social media, rumors flew. between twitter and instagram
ask, have you seen this girl? we kept showing the picture to people. nobody had seen her. sheila was very, very worried about what had happened to skylar. chrissy swanson is a close family friend of sheila s and saw sheila s distress firsthand. she was trying so hard to help them find anything, so hard to help them figure out what had happened. the star city police are still looking for a missing 16-year-old. dave made a plea for help on local news station wboy. we love her. we want her home. by sunday night, skylar had been gone the whole weekend. her family, including her aunt carol, was heartsick. i just had this horrible feeling in my heart that, you know, something terrible had happened and it wasn t like her to run away or disappear like she did. mary told me that night, she said, something s wrong, babe. something s bad wrong. the community held a candlelight vigil.
what was her demeanor? i remember her pulling up the waste basket next to her. she was afraid she was going to throw up and then we started asking her the questions that we thought she would answer. did she overdose at a party? i remember her face got really red. she glanced at us and said, we stabbed her. it wasn t an accident. it was a murder. and not only had rachel and sheila killed skylar, they had planned it for months. all the while looking and acting like the best of friends. as sheila and skylar do in this video. as part of the plan, rachel and sheila settled on the night of july 5th as the ideal time to kill skylar. earlier that day, rachel had obtained the shovel from her father s residence, put it in sheila s trunk, brought the clean clothes, cleaning supplies and according to rachel, sheila
little sister was a murderer. i still to this day have trust issues. like when i m hanging out with a friend, i get nervous somewhat. i m sure a lot of people feel that way now still. skylar s friend morgan lawrence says she thinks about all the milestones she and skylar had planned to mark together. you two should be doing everything alongside each other. yeah. they didn t just take away a bride. they took away a bridesmaid. skylar s second parents say they ll miss out, too. when morgan walks down the aisle, skylar won t be there. she will be. she ll be watching over her? she will. in june 2013, dave and mary had a memorial service at the site where skylar was killed and they re proud to have helped pass skylar s law, which requires amber alerts even when police suspect a teen has run away. it s peaceful here now.
because that s what they re worth to me and my wife. she has done nothing but make our lives a living hell since day one. dave and mary wished they had known more about what was going on in skylar s life in the months before she died. what is your biggest regret, if you have one? not knowing the girls better. and i don t know if anyone could have known them that well. there had to be a sign somewhere. there had to be a clue. i feel as a father, you re supposed to be in charge of keeping your family safe and you feel like it went wrong somewhere. rachel shoaf, would you please stand? rachel was sentenced to 30 years in prison. she will be eligible for parole in 2023. prosecutor marsha ashdown says don t be fooled by the girls appearance. they planned that crime, not